Yoichi Shimakawa, a native of Japan, specializes in international training and business consulting, focusing on Japanese/Asian and American corporate partnerships. His work has included: (1) training programs such as Working With Japanese, Working With Americans, Intercultural Teambuilding, and Training Globalization, (2) multicultural teambuilding, meeting process facilitation and performance consulting in the U.S. and across the Pacific; (3) research projects to assess intercultural productivity between US companies and their foreign subsidiaries, (4) cross cultural technology transfer facilitation, (5) corporate culture development projects, and (6) on-site intercultural consulting and training for Asia Region Corporations (including Japan, India and the Philippines).

His client list as an international cross-cultural business consultant includes a number of Fortune 500 companies, including: 3M, Anderson Consulting, Applied Materials, AT&T Microelectronics, Caminos Corporation, Canon Computer Systems, Cypress Semiconductor, DuPont, Baxter International, Boston Scientific, Excite@Home, Fuji Xerox, Fujitsu, the Gap Inc., Hitachi, Honda R&D Americas, IBM Japan, Intel Corporation, KLA instruments, Kodak, Meridian Resources Associates, Monsanto, Motorola Inc., National Semiconductor, Pitney Bowes, Procter & Gamble, Qualcomm, Shinnyo-en USA, Sumitomo, Teijin and the US State Department.

Mr. Shimakawa is known internationally in the cross-cultural field for his work on verbal and nonverbal communication characteristics across cultures. He wrote a chapter with associates called, "The Binding of Culture: Nonverbal Dimensions of Credibility in Structured Learning Situations" in Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Nonverbal Communication and has conducted workshops on intercultural training and consulting at the International Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) conferences. Mr. Shimakawa has lived in the United States since 1986.